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Pretty nice, but only supports one server.

Been a while since I knew anybody that worked at McDonald's... But while I was a lifeguard in college, one girl quit the lifeguarding to get more hours at McDonald's. They were much much better at tailoring her hours, and others around their school schedules, kids schedulers, whatever. Perhaps that was a localized thing, but it was always known as a good place to work around here.

Syncthing can work. You don't get the centralized server though. Well you can run it on an always on system. I'd like this to be a VPS, but the files sit on the VPS in clear text. I like syncthing as it syncs file mode bits as well.

Resilio Sync is decentralized as well. And lets you setup encrypted folders, so only peers with the password can decrypt them, but other peers can take part in the syncing. So I can run an instance on a VPS and not worry too much if it gets compromised. I find its Linux support lacking and wasn't as reliable as Syncthing for me. I'm going to try it again sometime.

Seafile. Centralized server, can do encrypted folders. I'm going to look at this one again, but found the sync took a real long time, and I don't think it synced file mode bits.

Nextcloud. Centralized server. Can do encrypted folders. Seemed OK, but didn't do mode bits.

Currently I'm using Syncthing, where my central always on machine is my home server which would be running anyways. I like the idea of having a 'central' server in the cloud, but need that to be secured in a way that Syncthing can't do. So I'm not sure its my permanent solution yet.

I also use Unison for much larger folders, like my code directories.

Gnome has been really pissing me off lately. Simple things, like adding app that start on login need a "Tweak" tool? How silly is that.

With the upgrade to Fedora 29 I thought I'd try KDE. Its got a lot of the features I miss from Gnome - and a tray, and not so fat title bar. But its really unstable in various ways. In particular, forgetting many settings after a reboot. One display having a background, the other not.

Anyways, back to Gnome. At least whats their is stable.

I plan to give XFCE a shot. But might be time to take the i3 dive.

Say I’m forced to use Ubuntu. But my favourite distro is Fedora, should I use the supported Fedora kernel on Ubuntu.

;)

I currently have Fedora 28 installed on a T470 and a T480s and it’s pretty flawless. Not the sexiest laptops out there, but they seem pretty good for Linux.

I hope you appreciate the fact that you have a door :)

What is the root of all the Microsoft distrust? I’m older, and left Windows for Linux back in 1997 and haven’t really paid attention since. I wonder if this mistrust is valid? Are they any worse than Apple?

No. The hack that is better at advertising himself will get the higher paid consulting gigs.

I’m a full time paid open source developer. About 40% of my time is reviewing pull requests these days. Most of these are meaningful contributions. And while it can be a pain in the ass it is community building.

Probably silly, but I pretty much only use Chrome for the custom/compact title bar on Linux. On smaller screens it gives me more vertical on the content.

Unless you need to spin up OpenBSD and FreeBSD instances with an almost like Docker workflow. That’s where I use Vagrant still.

This is unfortunate. I chose Crashplan initially due to great family pricing, but more importantly as it had a Linux client. Given I backup Linux home server, a Linux desktop and a Linux laptop this has been its killer feature for me.

2 things keep me on Chrome. First, the overly large titlebar on Linux. I've tried some addons to make it more like Chrome but they all look like shit. And second, the dev tools. I find dev tools in Firefox clumsy to use. I believe I originally switched to Chrome for the dev tools when I ventured into frontend development.

One thing I do way less in my 40s is over engineer a solution, or worry about all possible someday maybe use cases of a class many Java developers seem to like to design for.

Sure. But it means I can write device drivers up to a single page application UI.

I miss it.

Planes are also getting rid of their screens. Yeah, I should have known when we went on our last family vacation.

So my wife and I watched movies are on our phones over the wifi system. Know what sucks? Can't charge and use headphones at the same time without an adapter.

I also use a ScanSnap. An S300 I got back in 2009. Completely worth it if you scan then shred all your documents.

Ever few months I'd pull out some old files and put a podcast or something and scan a few hundred sheets.

Your not. I'm 42, I still love to code and am in the very early stages of planning a startup or something like it and am just excited about it as when I did a startup when I was 29.

Keep learning. Find a couple things you can become an expert in, and get out of you don't enjoy it.

Kinda related to some of the discussion. Is there anywhere within 2-3 hours of the Bay Area where one could start a company yet have a normal house with a normal yard for a family?

I've suffered called hands, fingers and wrists which in turn has made them sore, right up my forearms. I tried gloves and stuff - part of it might be that my home office is in the basement and I live in a climate that sees -30C.

Anyways, my fix is to get the heart rate up. I jump on the treadmill at an incline and do some push-ups. 10 minutes is all I need. And no, I'm not a fitness freak.

Developer here and just about to turn 42. It helps if you can find a niche where you are a subject matter expert, hopefully a subject matter that is going to be relevant for some time.

Keeps me out of the rat race of which tech to learn next, or at least doing it at my own pace. This year I'll be applying Rust.

Rust. I think its got everything I want in a replacement for C. Plus the project I'm working on is considering using Rust to replace C for parsing untrusted input. I just need to get past the syntax.

Behind what? I use Bootstrap and it does the job. I don't know of any alternatives than Zurb

Algorithms perhaps. Not necessarily known them all off hand, but at least knowing the existence of a variety of them so you know when to use them.

Of course this can be done with self study as well.

I currently use a huge Ikea Galant wrap-around desk. So I can run my 3 24" displays and just swivel my chair to move to writing space. To get the equivalent standing space is beyond my budget, so at least for me, it impacts my current setup more than just being able to stand.

I'm not a front end dev but am an experienced programmer. About 3 years ago I took a few evenings and to work through Angular tutorials - at the time I didn't realize these new frameworks rendered client side.

After I had a few things on the screen I added Bootstrap and started to learn CSS from scratch.

My advice is pick a framework, I like Angular 2 ( or any batteries included framework) and just work through the tutorials. Type it all out instead of downloading the starters. It helps if you have an idea of an app to build rather than just banging out Todo apps, you can then apply what you learned to a project that means something to you.

I've settled on Todoist. It's not awesome but does the job especially for recurring tasks. But more and more for work I've found myself using a little notebook or a small stack of index cards.

I think there are lot of us who may never have really like Mac hardware, but find the OS is the best option out there to get our work done. Its just a little sad it locks us to specific hardware platform as well.

This probably only applies to various pockets like Silicon Valley or New York. For the most part, developer salaries aren't that great.

I'd be much better off had I become an accountant, or perhaps even a plumber running my own business.